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Mary Ann Evans

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It is doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if there were not pacific people at home who like to fancy themselves soldiers. War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for want of a “public.”

Mary Ann Evans (1819 – 1880), writing as George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

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